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Forbes
04-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Garmin Slashes Fenix 8, Forerunner Watch Prices In Major Sale
Garmin watches Garmin has dropped prices across several of its key watch lines as part of its Father's Day sale. Among the discounts are some of the watches I tend to recommend the most often, including the brilliant Forerunner 165 for $199.99, or $249.99 for the Music Edition with on-board storage for downloaded tunes. Deals are not limited to the lower-end lines either. The Garmin Fenix 8 is on sale at $200 off across the board, meaning the Fenix E now costs $599.99, while the highly recommended 47mm edition of the AMOLED Fenix 8 costs $899.99. The Garmin Instinct 3 is also worth a look, selling at $50 off. This means the range now starts at $249.99 for the non-OLED Instinct E, while the 45mm AMOLED version is $399.99. None of these three quite fit the bill? You'll also find discounts on the smartwatch—like Garmin Venu 3 family, the super-long-lasting Garmin Enduro 3, the Forerunner 265. And 2023's best all-round running watch from Garmin, the Forerunner 965. There are also discounts on the golf-specific Approach S70 and S12 watch lines. Those in the UK should also check out Garmin's discounts for Global Running Day, although most of these are roundly comparable with what we see for Father's Day in the US, with a few little additions. For example, the basic Garmin Forerunner 55 is on sale for £119 in the UK, where those in the US still have to pay $199.99. One factor to bear in mind here is older-generation Garmin watches frequently go on sale during other sales periods, such as Black Friday and Amazon's various Prime sales events. However, plenty of the watches in this sale remain the newest of their particular type, notably the Fenix 8, Instinct 3, Enduro 3 and — a personal favourite of mine as a sound buy — the Forerunner 165. And some, like the Instinct 3, are only a few months old.
Gizmodo
30-05-2025
- Health
- Gizmodo
This Forerunner 165 Is The Cheapest Advanced Garmin Watch, Now at an All-Time Low on Amazon
The world of advanced smartwatches is now more accessible than ever, and right now, Amazon is making upgrading your wristwear even easier by providing a significant discount. Whether you are a runner, fitness fanatic or just looking for a reliable watch to wear every day, the Garmin Forerunner 165 is among the most affordable advanced smartwatches on the market now thanks to Amazon's large discount. Priced at only $199 down from an MSRP of $249, this feature-rich Forerunner 165 watch is a steal for what it offers. If you are looking for something a little more luxe, the Forerunner 265 is being sold at a discount as well for $349 down from $449, and even the Fenix 8 models are seeing their first-ever price cuts. See Forerunner 165 at Amazon 25 Built In Activity Profiles While the Garmin Forerunner 165 is designed for runners and active users, the features and functionality also extend well beyond the common daily jog. The watch comes with a full-color AMOLED touchscreen display that is clear in any light, traditional buttons to get to your favorite features quickly and a comfortable, lightweight 43 mm case for easy wear throughout your day whether at work, hitting the gym, or miles into a long run. With up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, you will seldom have to think about recharging. A major highlight of the Forerunner 165 is the integrated GPS, as it provides you accurate pace and distance tracking directly from your wrist. The Forerunner 165 includes wrist-based heart rate monitoring to provide you with real-time feedback about your effort and recovery. Each morning, you will wake up to a customized morning report detailing your sleep quality, recovery status, training outlook, weather, and heart rate variability. This Garmin watch also provides personalized daily suggested workouts based on your performance and recovery to help keep you motivated and on track. The Forerunner 165 is equipped with Garmin Coach and race-adaptive training plans and provides you with tailored workout recommendations whether you are training for a race or looking to improve your fitness improvements. The Forerunner 165 also includes training effect and training effect labels which consider the impact of each workout on your overall fitness level, and ideas for the primary benefit you have gained. With over 25 built in activity profiles, the Forerunner 165 is set for virtually any sport or workout. You will have detailed metrics and insights provided for every activity including running, cycling, HIIT workouts, strength workouts, etc. Included safety and tracking features include incident detection for select outdoor activities and an Assistance feature that will send your live location to emergency contacts when paired with your smartphone. There is definitely a lot to love about the Garmin Forerunner 165, and with the current promotion from Amazon, you can excel while spending like a novice. See Forerunner 165 at Amazon
Forbes
15-05-2025
- Forbes
Suunto Run Is The Top Watch To Take On Garmin's Budget Forerunner 165
Suunto Run The just-announced Suunto Run is an affordable runner's watch that should catch the attention of anyone shopping for a budget Garmin. Suunto's Run watch costs $249, and could make a compelling alternative to the already excellent Garmin Forerunner 165 Music, at $299. The newer watch has a few key advantages. First up, music support comes as standard in the Suunto Run, while you pay an additional $50 for it in the Garmin range. You get a limited 4GB of internal memory, though, and it's worth noting the Suunto Run does not support integration with services like Amazon Music and Spotify. Instead, MP3s are manually transferred to the storage, which may feel a little archaic to those who have never really maintained an old-school digital music library. There's another important feature, though. The Suunto Run has dual-band L1+L5 GPS, which is missing from the Forerunner 165 — an upgrade to the Forerunner 265 is required for that. Dual-frequency/band GPS is useful for difficult environments in which a watch can struggle to track your location, like in a skyscraper-filled city or a thick forest. The Suunto Run also nets you a larger AMOLED screen than its direct Garmin rival. This is a 1.32-inch 466 x 466 pixel screen with Gorilla Glass protection rather than the unbranded toughened glass often seen in more price-conscious watches. Suunto Run rear Suunto goes beyond the basics in other areas of the design too. Its bezel is stainless steel, which is typically significantly harder than the more common aluminium alloy. And this doesn't, as it often can, dramatically impact weight as much of the casing is still a plastic formulation — 'glass fibre reinforced polyamide.' The Suunto Run weighs 36g, which should be enough to disappear on the wrist. Suunto says a charge will last up to 12 days, and it's rated for 20 hours of GPS use in the dual-band mode, 30 hours in the single-band GPS mode. There are no too-obvious cuts elsewhere either. The Suunto Run has a compass, an altimeter, and supports limited route navigation. You don't get full maps, but can send programmed routes to the Suunto Run for basic trail navigation — almost as useful to many — and structured workouts are onboard as well. Some more advanced stats are included too, such as training readiness and training load. These are crucial indicators as to when you might be pushing too hard, one of the easiest ways to find yourself injured. The Suunto Run also has a new optical heart rate sensor, and a refreshed interface that can be controlled using the rotary dial on the side. Touchscreen operation is an option too, of course. Suunto's Run watch certainly sounds a great deal, and will be available from June 3 in four colors. These are black, grey, orange and a bright 'lime' yellow.
Tom's Guide
14-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
I tested the Garmin Forerunner 165 vs. Suunto Run for a week — which running watch should you buy?
The entry-level AMOLED watch in Garmin's sports watch range offers a lot of impressive features to runners in particular, and has a slick user interface plus useful smart features. It's a little pricier than the Suunto Run, and lacks the dual-band GPS you get on the Suunto. Suunto's entry-level running watch undercuts the competition, including the Forerunner 165, and offers great sports features including extensive training analysis and dual-band GPS. Its smart features are limited though, and it's not as good a fitness tracker as the Forerunner 165. The Suunto Run and Garmin Forerunner 165 are both among the best running watches available, offering great value in particular as the entry-level AMOLED options in the Suunto and Garmin ranges. While the Forerunner 165 offers a more polished user experience and better smart features, the Suunto Run has a more extensive array of sports tracking features, including dual-band GPS, and comes in cheaper than the Forerunner 165 on MRSP. I've tested both watches individually and worn them at the same time for the past week to track my runs and other workouts. I'll cover the key differences I've noticed between the two watches below, and for more information on them check out our Garmin Forerunner 165 review and Suunto Run review. The Garmin Forerunner 165 launched in February 2024 and costs $249.99 / £249.99 for the standard version of the watch and $299.99 / £289.99 for the Garmin Forerunner 165 Music. It's more expensive than the Suunto Run, which launched in May 2025 and only comes in one model that costs $249 / £199 and has music storage. However, the Forerunner 165 is now often in sales that bring the price down to $249 for the music model, matching the Suunto Run's price. Winner: Suunto Run Suunto Run Garmin Forerunner 165 Price $249/£199 $249.99/£249.99; $299.99/£289.99 (Music) Size 46 x 11.5mm 43 x 11.6mm Display 1.32in 466 x 466 AMOLED 1.2in 390 x 390 AMOLED Bezel Steel Polymer Screen Gorilla glass Glass Weight 36g 39g Water resistance 50m 5ATM Battery life (watch mode) Up to 12 days Up to 11 days Battery life (GPS) Up to 20 hours (dual-band) 19 hours (all-systems GPS) Storage 4GB 4GB The Suunto Run and Garmin Forerunner 165 are both small, lightweight watches that are comfortable to wear 24/7. The Forerunner 165 is a little smaller than the Suunto, and has a smaller screen at 1.2 inches vs 1.3 inches for the Suunto Run. Both watches have bright AMOLED displays, but I found the Forerunner 165's a little clearer and easier to read during runs in bright sunlight. I also prefer the five-button setup on the Garmin to the three buttons on the Suunto, one of which is a dial. While both watches are mostly made from plastic, the Suunto does have an steel bezel surrounding its screen. Both watches feel well-made and study, and have a more premium look than you might expect for entry-level sports watches. The Suunto comes with a nylon band as standard, whereas the Garmin comes with a silicone strap. I find the nylon band more comfortable, but both bands can be replaced with third-party straps — the Suunto uses 22mm bands while the Garmin uses 20mm ones. You get four color options for the Suunto and four for the Garmin Forerunner 165 Music, but just two for the standard Forerunner 165 model. Both watches have an impressive array of sensors including a pulse oximeter and barometric altimeter, but one advantage the Suunto has is dual-band GPS tracking, whereas the Forerunner 165 only offers all-systems GPS. Winner: Suunto Run Both watches are mainly designed for running and have dedicated track run modes, but both also offer a lot of other sports modes, including open-water swimming. While neither has a multisport mode, on the Suunto Run you can switch from one sport to another when you pause an activity, and the watch will record your transition, so it will be more useful to triathletes. There are more data field customization options on the Suunto Run, in that you can show more stats on your screen during activities — the Forerunner 165 tops out at four, whereas you can adjust six on the Suunto Run. The Suunto Run also offers a lot more training analysis than the Forerunner 165, and more experienced athletes will enjoy the level of detail you get from the watch compared to the Garmin, which keeps things simple. You can pair external sensors to both watches, though neither support cycling power meters, but the Forerunner 165 offers connectivity via both Bluetooth and ANT+, whereas the Suunto Run only connects to other devices through Bluetooth. Winner: Suunto Run Throughout my testing of both watches I compared their heart rate readings to that of a chest strap, which I always find more reliable than optical sensors on watches. I checked their GPS accuracy against other watches, including the Garmin Fenix 8, and also by looking over the tracks after my runs. During my testing I had both watches in their most accurate GPS modes, which is dual-band tracking on the Suunto Run and all-systems tracking on the Forerunner 165, as the Garmin doesn't offer dual-band. Despite this, I found that both watches recorded very similar GPS tracks on all my runs, and the pacing stats were also very similar. Both have been reliably accurate for me throughout testing, though in hard GPS conditions such as city centers you might well get better results from the dual-band on the Suunto. With regards to heart rate accuracy, both matched up to a chest strap's readings well during bike rides, strength workouts and yoga sessions, but the Forerunner 165 was a little more reliable for me during runs. The Suunto Run would sometimes show too high a heart rate, especially at the start of runs, and while it usually eventually locked onto the right heart rate, it was not as quite as accurate as the Forerunner 165 for me. Winner: Garmin Forerunner 165 Both watches offer music storage, but this is a better feature on the Forerunner 165, which can link with streaming services like Spotify as well as storing MP3 files. The Suunto Run can only store MP3 files, so if you use a streaming service, the Garmin is the better pick. The Forerunner 165 also offers NFC payments through Garmin Pay, whereas you can only use the Suunto Run to pay for things in China using Alipay. Both show notifications from your phone and have a weather forecast widget, but the Forerunner 165 has access to more third-party software through the Connect IQ app store. Winner: Garmin Forerunner 165 On paper the two watches offer similar battery life at up to 11 days for the Suunto and up to 12 for the Garmin in watch mode, then 20 hours of GPS tracking on the Suunto and 19 hours on the Garmin. In practice, the battery drained at almost identical rates for me when using both watches at the same time. I had the screens set to always-on, which shortened the battery life considerably, and both lasted me three to four days on a charge when running every day. Winner: Tie This is a really tough call, because these are both watches I rate very highly that I'd be happy to use as my daily driver as a keen marathoner. I prefer the user interface and music storage on the Garmin, which I find easier to use, but the extra training analysis and data fields you get during activities on the Suunto will be important to runners, and the dual-band GPS will also be a big plus if you regularly run in city centers. If both are at full price I think the Suunto Run is the better way to go, but at the same price the choice will depend on what features you value the most.
CNET
13-05-2025
- Business
- CNET
At Just $200, This Garmin Forerunner 165 Running Smartwatch Has Never Been Cheaper
The choices on offer when you start shopping for a new smartwatch can be bewildering. But if you're keen on something with a focus on running more than apps and fancy watch faces, you can't go wrong with something from Garmin. The Forerunner 165 is a smartwatch that's all about running and training, and right now, you can pick yours up for its lowest price yet at just $200. That's a $50 discount from the original $250 asking price, but this is a limited-time deal, which means it might not run far beyond the Memorial Day sales. For that reason, we suggest that you consider ordering your new Forerunner 165 soon if you want to lock this price in. In terms of features, the watch comes with a colorful AMOLED display so you can easily see your figures and, of course, the time, even in bright daylight. You can get the Garmin Forerunner 165 in any size that you want, so long as it's 43mm. You'll also get up to 11 days of battery life from a single charge when using smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours when using the more power-hungry GPS mode. Hey, did you know? CNET Deals texts are free, easy and save you money. On the software side, the Forerunner 165 has more than 25 built-in activity profiles for popular activities like running, cycling, HIIT, strength and more, and it even gets to work while you sleep. You'll get a morning report when you wake, so you can learn all about how rested you are and whether your body is ready to go for the day ahead. Garmin even has some Apple Watch-like safety features, including incident detection that can send a message and your live location to your emergency contact should you take a tumble while you're working out. Because this is a smartwatch, you'll also get your calls and notifications on your wrist, and the Forerunner 165 can be paired with an iPhone or Android phone, so you're good to go no matter which ecosystem you prefer. Why this deal matters Getting fit and staying that way is easier when you have the stats that show your progress. A great fitness smartwatch can help provide that information and Garmin knows how to make a wearable with workouts in mind. We haven't seen this particular smartwatch sell for less than this so far, so this is the perfect time to pick one up while you can save $50.
